Instrument ID
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I've been asked to find which aircraft this would have come from. Presumably British?
Thanks for any ideas.
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Redifon did a lot of sim stuff and I'm guessing the "68" is 1968; so maybe F-4 related? It's a pretty basic display and not from the aircraft so how about maybe the AI trainers they had at Coningsby?
Redifon is a grandparent company of the current Thales, and so it is very likely to have come from a simulator prior to the mid 80s when the company became Thompson then Thales. Lightning maybe?......Edited to add ... maybe not. The Lightening had a strip ASI / Mach meter.
You would think so but none of the pictures seem to fit so maybe Chris Kebab is right, it is from some other training device. Or did Redifon make simulators for any export customers?
The ident label pre-dates the 13-digit NSN days. If necessary, you would put a longer sticky label on it with the full number. That it is blank may, as Chris Kebab says, mean there was no aircraft application as there would be no need to have a NSN.
“ The Lightening had a strip ASI” The strip speed was was not fitted to all Marks! Only the Mk 3 and 6 plus the T5 were fitted with it in RAF service. So that ASI could be from a Lightning although as I recall ours had the Mach limits clearly marked!
Someone just sold something quite similar (Mach 1.3) on ebay for £51.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REDIFON-Aircraft-Simulator-Machmeter-Instrument-26161-Mach-0-7-to-1-3/254158842363
ASI
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REDIFON-Aircraft-Simulator-Air-Speed-Indicator-ASI-Instrument-6DN-305/254158847661
And of course for the Chipmunk fans
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gipsy-Major-10-2-Piston-Rings/223437470105
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REDIFON-Aircraft-Simulator-Machmeter-Instrument-26161-Mach-0-7-to-1-3/254158842363
ASI
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REDIFON-Aircraft-Simulator-Air-Speed-Indicator-ASI-Instrument-6DN-305/254158847661
And of course for the Chipmunk fans
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gipsy-Major-10-2-Piston-Rings/223437470105
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